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Martyr Justin the Philosopher (Justin Martyr) at Rome (166);
Martyrs Chariton, Charita, Euelpistus, Hierax, Peonus, Valerian (Liberianus), and Justus, with Justin Martyr (166);
Martyr Neon, by beheading;
Saint Pyrrus, Bishop, reposed in peace;
Hieromartyr Phyrrhus the Virgin;
Martyr Thespesius of Cappadocia (222);
Martyrs Ischyrion, a military officer, and five other soldiers, in Egypt (250);
Martyr Gerasimos;
The holy Ten thousand Martyrs, in Antiochia (249-251);
Martyr Firmus, under the eparch Magus (299);
St. Metrius the Farmer of Myra in Lycia (912);
Martyrs Felinus and Gratinianus (250);
Hieromartyrs Reverianus (Bishop) and Paul (priest), with ten others, at Autun (272);
Martyr Crescentian, in Saldo near Città di Castello in Italy (287);
Martyr Juventius, in Rome;
Martyr Proclus, at Bologna (304);
Martyr Secundus, at Amelia in Umbria, when thrown into the Tiber (304);
Martyr Clarus of Acquitaine, a Bishop believed to have been sent to evangelize Aquitaine, France;
Saint Fortunatus of Spoleto the Wonderworker (400);
Saint Caprasius of Lérins, Abbot (430);
Saint Ronan of Locronan (Ronan of Cornwall), early bishop of Cornish origin who preached in Cornwall and Brittany (6th c.);
Saint Wite, a female Dorset saint martyred by the Danes, buried at Whitchurch Canonicorum (ca.831);
Saint Wigstan (Wystan, Wistan, Winston), of the royal house of Mercia in England (849);
Saint Gaudentius of Ossero, Bishop of Ossero in Istria (1044);
Saint Atto, a monk at Oña in Spain with St. Enneco, who later became Bishop of Oca-Valpuesta (ca.1044);
Saint Agapetus of the Kiev Caves, Unmercenary physician of the Kiev Near Caves (1095);
Saint Dionysius of Glushetsk in Vologda, Abbot, Wonderworker (1437);
Martyr Shio the New (Shio of Akhakalakhi) in Georgia (1696);
Synaxis of the Holy Martyrs of Georgia (Holy Fathers martyred by the Dagestanians): David, Gabriel, and Paul of the St. David Gareji Monastery (1696-1700);
New Hieromartyr Onuphrius (Gagalyuk), Bishop of Kharkov (1938);
New Hieromartyr Basil, priest (1940);
Virgin-martyr Vera (1940);
Saint Justin Popovic, Archimandrite of Ćelije Monastery in Serbia (1979);
Other Commemorations:
Commemoration of the deliverance of the island of Lefkada from the plague through the intercession of Saint Bessarion (†1540), Archbishop of Larissa (ca. 1743);
Repose of Elder Philaret of Kapsala, Mt. Athos (1975);
Glorification (1990) of Righteous John of Kronstadt (1908).